BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing has named an official who became prominent during a crackdown on protests in a Chinese village as director of its new national security office in Hong Kong, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday. Zheng Yanxiong, 56, recently served as secretary general of the committee …
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Florida police officers laughed and celebrated by shooting protesters with rubber bullets during a George Floyd demonstration in May, recently released body camera images show. “Hit him, little boy,” Detective Zachary Baro, head of a Fort Lauderdale Police Department SWAT team unit, can be heard in the video, which was …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are discussing a plan to create an unofficial parliament in exile to keep the flame of democracy alive and send a message to China that freedom cannot be crushed, he told Reuters on activist Simon Cheng. Simon Cheng, a former British Consulate employee, …
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The teenager was shot dead in the Seattle Capitol organized protest area, was being chased after stealing a Jeep at knifepoint, and sobbed, “I don’t want to die” after he was shot, according to a report. Antonio Mays Jr., 16, said he and a 14-year-old boy were being chased and …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong police arrested a 24-year-old man at the city’s airport early Thursday on suspicion of stabbing an officer during protests against a new Beijing-imposed national security law in downtown financial. Chinese national flags are seen on the ground during a march against national security law …
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